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Picking the right flat panel
Government buyers are accustomed to looking at three main specifications when shopping for monitors: size, dot pitch and resolution. However, those traditional specifications are treated differently when looking at flat-panel displays.
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Why the flashy display?
Slowly, but surely, government agencies are moving away from small, archaic computer displays that might look at home on the set of 'Apollo 13,' and are moving toward largescreen monitors that would fit in on the set of 'Star Trek.'
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Flat screens offer sharp viewing
Monitors are the one component of a computer where what you see is, indeed, what you get. And with each of the three new flat screens covered in this review, what you get is clear, sharp displays that are a joy to view.
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IBM P96
The most obvious thing about IBM's 'professionalgrade' 19inch P96 monitor is that it is not the same boring beige as nearly all of the other monitors in the world. IBM offers its monitors in a chic black as well as office beige. It used to be a more expensive option, but now either color is available for the same price.
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Samsung SyncMaster 700NF
Samsung has been quietly building a strong reputation for its displays. The SyncMaster 700NF is a stylish unit. Despite Samsung's clean execution of details and sterling reputation, the SyncMaster 700NF's picture wasn't as brilliant or sharp as the Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 73's. The difference is only apparent when the two are sidebyside, but there is a difference.
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Cache buys better Web dynamics
The wellknown shortcoming of the World Wide Web is the fact that it takes time 'forever' as many people like to put it to move information from a server to a user's desktop, no matter if that server is on the other side of the globe or down the street.
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Army caches hackers
The Regional Computer Emergency Response Team (RCERT) at Fort Huachuca has installed seven World Wide Web caches for Army customers across the country, according to Robert Kane, principal network security engineer for the team. Kane sets up caches to defend the public Web sites of various commands against being defaced by hackers.
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FDA cache serves hungry surfers
The FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition hosts a World Wide Web site that logged about 5.6 million hits in March. With that kind of workload, the FDA needed to tune its server for maximum performance. For help, the agency turned to a Web cache from Cacheflow Inc. as soon as the technology became available a year and a half ago.
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PC servers: New building blocks
PC servers are not what they used to be. And federal customers couldn't be happier.
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Souping up storage
Most servers PC servers included play too important a role to risk data loss or downtime because of a hard drive failure. Unlike most of the parts inside modern computers, hard disk drives have moving parts and therefore suffer failures more often than the semiconductor components.
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PC99s Eliminate Older, Trouble-Prone Technologies
At a time when the idea of "out with the old, in with the new" is getting a lot of attention, the PC industry is creating its own version of seasonal renewal with the selling of "legacy-free" PCs. If that sounds like a way of forgetting the mistakes of the past and embracing the future, well that's the idea.
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Out with the old, in with the new
At a time when the idea of 'out with the old, in with the new' is getting a lot of attention, the PC industry is creating its own version of seasonal renewal with the selling of 'legacyfree' PCs. If that sounds like a way of forgetting the mistakes of the past and embracing the future, well that?#x92;s the idea.
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Compaq's Aero palmtops give helping hand to Windows CE
If Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE operating system earns a much bigger share of the palmtop computing market, then Bill Gates better thank Compaq Computer Corp. for the help. Compaq's two new entries in this red-hot market raise the bar for ease of use for Windows CE-based palmtops.
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Opening the 64-bit data pipeline
In most aspects of computing, bigger, faster and more is better: Faster clock and network speeds, more RAM and bigger hard disk drives are all benchmarks by which we measure the pace of computing progress.
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Multiplying your power
Employing additional processors may seem like an obvious solution to those seeking to boost PC productivity, but getting real benefits from multiprocessing has proved to be difficult for vendors of machines that use Intel Corp.based chips. Because of some unfortunate twists on 'new math' that occu
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Wild File's GoBack cures hard drive headaches
Wild File Inc. claims that GoBack is a product that saves users from all of the worst headaches that can strike computer users. Other utilities tidy up many of the problems of daily computer usage, but some of the big problems, such as loss of critical system files, overwriting important documents,
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OneTouch 8600 scanner offers ease and sophistication
Scanners have long been the PC peripheral that brought out the worst in PC usability.
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Getting the message
Unified messaging systems are rapidly evolving from curiosity to necessity as more users recognize the benefits of a centralized system for retrieving and managing all types of messages. Although federal customers who have dabbled with the technology report substantial bumps in the road to unified
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Tools you can count on
How many PCs does your organization own? The question may not be as easy to answer as you might think. In one case, a federal agency believed that it owned 40,000 PCs, but an inventory found fewer than 25,000 machines, according to Martin Fredrickson, director of government sales for Tivoli Systems
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Java perks up federal applications
Like the real world in general, the computer world suffers a TowerofBabel proliferation of incompatible languages that make cooperation and communication difficult. In the real world, idealists concocted the idea of Esperanto, a single, global language to replace the many languages used worldwide
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